Must just say Mike.... occasionally keep reading here and on other places about "RealPlayer" and "all its baggage" and other stuff re "spyware" etc., and can never really understand why....
If you know how RealPlayer works, what it does, how it does stuff, then you will never have a problem.... you set your preferences and delete what you don't want like many other proggies....
I've used it for the last 8 or so years, upgrading when available, and never ever had a problem with it....
Sometimes I think it's more to do with the "hype" and "listening to what other's say" which usually comes from sources that don't really know that cause the "suspicion"....
This is true in the cases of many software proggies IMHO....
Only a thought mate.... but thought I'd add it here just to have an alternative view to what is becoming the "norm" re "Real" stuff....